This week’s guest is the third person on this show from the realm of science communication (if you include me). Stephanie Castillo is a Jill-of-all-trades multimedia producer who creates science videos for YouTube. But the path to get here wasn’t easy. We discuss how she overcame her academic adversity to successfully pitch her own interdisciplinary PhD. We talk about our lives as lifelong learners, full of curiosity and a desire to do everything (and the importance of supportive parents for this lifestyle). Common themes from past episodes, include crossing boundaries, identity work, neurodivergence as well as our roles as dot connectors, arose as well.

Promised Show Notes Materials (take a drink):

1. Sign up for updates on my podcast and what's happening in the Renaissance People Community. Find our latest activities on my website.
2. Generalist vs Specialist vs Versatilist article
3. ComSciCon program for graduate students
4. Three Star Coloring critique from the Occuplaytional Therapist
5. Collaborations Across Scientific Disciplines, commissioned lit review for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
6. Great science communicators on Instagram to check out (many are other platforms too): Alex Dainis, Maynard Okereke, Naomi Kohbelic, Harini Bhat, Jessica Knurick, Scientific America
7. Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River paper
8. SciComm Hotline podcast hosted by Stephanie Castillo and Reyhaneh Maktoufi
9. Stephanie’s website

Follow Stephanie on Social Media:

I'm back to having guests after two solo episodes! In this week's episode, multipassionate Renaissance Woman, Marika Luneau joined in the fun.

Marika is a fellow solopreneur dedicated to supporting purpose-drive professionals. Like me, she hosts LinkedIn Sprints and is a community builder. Our conversation ranged across numerous topics including LinkedIn strategy (focused on authenticity and community building), the importance of finding our people, neurospicy tendencies amongst Renaissance People, finding the right balance when telling your story and so much more. Speaking of stories, Marika shared a number for her life that even many of her friends and frequent collaborators don't know! So sit back, grab a drink of your choice, and enjoy the show!

Promised Show Notes Materials (take a drink):

1. Sign up for updates on my podcast and what's happening in the Renaissance People Community and find our latest activities on my website.
2. Jenni Gritters: Website, LinkedIn, Instagram
3. Research on ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) diagnosis differences between girls and boys
4. Research on the overlap between diagnosis of PMDD (premenstrual dysmorphic disorder) and ADHD
5. Sandy (Sandra) Bean: LinkedIn
6. Jamie Cox: Website
7. Andrea Reeves: Website
8. Alex Alcon: Website
9. Maggie Blackburn: Website
10. Jamie Hamre: LinkedIn
11. Michelle Obama says 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' is the worst question you can ask a kid Business Insider article
12. Patrick Meaney’s LinkedIn post about shaping your career...

This is another unplanned mini episode thanks to illness. In it, I talk about illness, injury, and caregiving and the impact it has on Renaissance People.

Promised Show Notes Materials (take a drink):

1. Check out Jenni Gritter's CREATE program.
2. Join as a guest on my show! If you're a Renaissance Person, complete this quick form and I’ll get back to you as I’m scheduling recording dates.
3. Sign up to get updates about this podcast and the Renaissance People Community I'm building.

Follow me on LinkedIn, where I put most of my social media energy and Facebook.

If you're extra curious, check out Renaissance Woman Consulting to learn more about some of the many types of work I do.

And should you care to support the production of this podcast, I'd love it if you'd buy me an oat milk cappuccino, the caffeinated beverage of my choice.

This podcast is hosted and edited by Sara Kobilka.

Theme music is by Brian Skellenger

Podcast distribution support provided by K.O. Myers of Particular Media

Promised Show Notes Materials (take a drink):

1. Join as a guest on my show! If you're a Renaissance Person, complete this quick form and I’ll get back to you as I’m scheduling recording dates.
2. Sign up to get updates about this podcast and the Renaissance People Community I'm building.
3. Thank you to my amazing guests, Ep. 2 Nancy Scales Coddington and Ep. 3 Melissa Vining.
4. SciGirls from Twin Cities Public Television
5. Interesting interview with Kimberlé Crenshaw, the professor who coined the term "intersectionality".
6. Learn more about two-spirit from an award-winning podcast episode of one of my favorite podcasts, Unreserved with Rosanna Deerchild.
7. Have thoughts about question regarding other terms for Renaissance People? Email me at sara@renwomanconsulting.com.

Follow me on LinkedIn, where I put most of my social media energy and Facebook.

If you're extra curious, check out Renaissance Woman Consulting to learn more about some of the many types of work I do.

And should you care to support the production of this podcast, I'd love it if you'd buy me an oat milk cappuccino, the caffeinated beverage of my choice.

This podcast is hosted and edited by Sara Kobilka.

Theme music is by Brian Skellenger

Podcast distribution support provided by K.O. Myers of Particular Media

In this episode, I am joined by Boundary Spanner Melissa Vining. In a multi-faceted conversation, Melissa and I talk about many topics of shared interest aka our significantly overlapping Venn diagrams. The conversation weaves its way through music, teaching, storytelling using a golden thread to support your message, career coaching, neurodivergence and motherhood, and our mutual past as people who grew up in Minnesota and moved away.

We explore some of the unique contradictory qualities of AuDHDers who have both an autism and ADHD diagnosis and the challenges of neurodivergent job seekers. Melissa delighted me by offering a challenge to one of my rapidish fire question about using metaphors.

Promised Show Notes Materials (take a drink):

• CliftonStrengths Assessment
• Sara’s episode on Melissa’s podcast, Job Search for High-Performing Misfits
• Sara's Find Your Golden Thread offer
• The Neurodivergent Woman Podcast
• CSCCE Series on Gardening as a Metaphor for Community Management
• Range: Why Generalists Thrive in a Specialized World by David Epstein (misspoken during the podcast)
• Neurodiversity in the Workplace: website and podcast/YouTube
• The Anxious Achiever podcast with Morra Aarons-Mele
• Dialect Quiz (warning, this inaccurately guessed where I’m from, but it does mention the bubbler)
• Find Your Local American Job Center

Follow Melissa on Social Media:

LinkedIn | YouTube

A few things Melissa and I discuss:

• 2:45 Being outside-the-box
• 4:02 Music and teaching (and “flutist” vs “flautist”)
• 7: 18 CliftonStrengths
• 10:27 Finding your golden thread
• 11:40 Renaissance People thrive in innovative spaces
• 13:28 Goal focused vs process focused environments and the issue with school systems
• 15:31 Overlap between Renaissance People and “neurospicy” folks
• 16:20 Changes in ADHD and autism diagnoses
• 20:53 Neurodivergence and the job search
• 22:16 Misfits finding their place
• 26:11 Explaining your complexity with stories and a golden thread
• 32:20 Using caution around AI and telling your story during your job search
• 34:57 Improv Game
• 37:06 Rapidish Fire Questions

Quotes from the...

Promised Show Notes Materials (take a drink):

• YouTube Video All the world's a stage | As You Like It | Act 2 Scene 7 | Shakespeare's Globe (length 3min 12 sec) Actress Sophia Stone’s powerful performance of a monologue (also known as “The 7 Stages of Life”) from Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It” using British Sign Language and spoken word.
• My LinkedIn post about feeling like I had to pick my left brain or my right brain and a FABULOUS photo of me in all of my late 1980s glory complete with crimped hair.
• I was involved with the Minnesota Youth in Government program in high school but the YMCA has Youth and Government programs across the United States.
• Article from Business Insider where Michelle Obama explains why she too is disgusted by the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
• Proxy Podcast with Yowei Shaw, which she describes as “The world's first podcast for emotional investigative journalism™”. She incorporated her scream of despair at being laid off from her job as host of NPR’s Invisibilia podcast into her theme song which I adore.

If you’re a Renaissance Person who’d like to join the conversation as a guest on my show, complete this quick form and I’ll get back to you as I’m scheduling recording dates.

Follow me on LinkedIn, where I put most of my social media energy and Facebook.

Stay updated about the Renaissance People Community I am building. This podcast is just one part of a multifaceted project because that’s how Renaissance People roll!

If you're extra curious, check out Renaissance Woman Consulting to learn more about some of the many types of work I do.

And should you care to support the production of this podcast, I'd love it if you'd buy me an oat milk cappuccino, the caffeinated beverage of my choice.

This podcast is hosted and edited by Sara Kobilka.

Theme music is by Brian Skellenger

Podcast distribution support provided by K.O. Myers of Particular Media